Zizek re September 11

[pynchonoid]

--- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am I really in the minority? Or is it really true
> that the people who
> control the media and goverments (increasingly
> indistinguishable) see only
> people like themselves? How many children of
> Congressmen are in Iraq or
> Afghanistan? How many anchormen's sons are carrying
> M-16s? 

That's the problem, even worse now than during Vietnam
when I got drafted.


>Maybe my
> familiarity with the war is a result of my living in
> a blue-collar immigrant
> urban neighborhood, but as I said, what about
> Vermont? Vermont has the
> highest per capita casualty rate of any state in the
> Union. That's probably
> a factor of unemployment in a rural dairy farming
> state. What about Camden
> NJ? Or Gary Indiana? Gainesville Florida? Santa Rosa
> New Mexico? Do people
> know about the war there? Damned right they do.
> They're the poor bastards
> fighting it.


And it's a crying shame they feel like they have no
choice but to do it, even as many of them understand
that what they are doing is wrong.  Even more terrible
that the rest of the US population stands by and lets
the government keep it up. 

US may not be "fascist" per se, whatever that means,
but there's a level of control over the population
that I haven't seen anywhere else outside China (where
I have lived and traveled extensively, and I speak
fluent Chinese). Bush & Co have people mesmerized,
imo, the way their war criminal predecessors have for
decades; similar siutation in other countries, of
course, cf. Gravity's Rainbow re the nature of
control. 




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